When i drove from our house in Dumfries, to Chillicothe, Oh in 2012.....to save the human race, visiting the Great Serpentine Mound......i went to a local library..in .SW, Ohio...it said Tecumshe was Blackfoot, by his dad......who died when Techumshe and the Prophet were young, his mother was Cherokee, and Stephen and Abraham, after the kidnapping from Ft Ruddell, Kentucky......were raised mainly by the older sisters of the Prophet and Tecumshe as were the later 2...breaking down the longer entry..........history of our family.......

The family reunions were in Independence, MO..Ruddells.....where me and Dave and Eric went twice.....i went once, just the 3 of us.........Nana and Pop and me....Eric and Dave were manning Gingerbread square....19971

Marcelline Ills Aug. 26, 1884
L. C. Draper, Esq.
My Dear Sir,

Your favor of July 3rd was received and contents duly noted as soon as it came to hand, but various circumstances has prevented my replying sooner. I have made 2 visits to my sister Mrs. Nichols on the subject of your enquiry. She says that there is nothing that she can remember to have heard father say about Tecumseh. She had received your letters & also a Book, 1 vol. of Wisconsin His. Society for which she returns thanks and would have written to you long since had she been able to write her self.

I have not heard from my brother yet. He may yet write you or my self yet.

I will answer your questions to the best of my recollection.
Tecumseh's father was not a man of any considerable note. He was quite disipated and inclined to be guardsome as to what finally became of him or where he died, I have no recollection of hearing father say.

As to Tecumseh's mother being either a Cherokee or Creek woman I have no recollections of hearing father say anything a bout that.

I have heard from him that she was a good woman kind and truly a good mother.

I have heard my father say frequently that Tecumseh prided him self greatly on his Shawanees or Shawnee blood. I am strongly inclined to the opinion that he was a full blooded Shawnee.

If my brother writes to me and has any rememberance a bout the matter I will write you. Before closing I will say that there is a man living in Canton Lewis Co., Mo that is some older than I am a distant relatiove that was frequent at my fathers and as he was of a very inquisitive nature and had mutch talk with father about the Indians and especially about Tecumseh (or the way father pronounced it Tecumtha) this man may be able to give you some facts & he is the only living man that I know of that would be likely to do so. You address him if you see fit to do so as follows:

Elder D. P. Henderson
Canton, Lewis County Mo